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Oe Odd Side of Things.
A GROUP OF CURIOUS STORIES
CATHERED FROM MANY SOURCES.
IZMALRKIBLN rlAxSAs TWINS.
* John Stites and Wilbur Stites, twins,
have lived in Wichita for many years.
About a week ago John was taken to
a local hospital suffering from cancer
of the stomach. On Wedneiday night
Wilbur went from the bedside of his
brother to his home. At the moment
when Wilbur left there was no appear
:ance of immediate danger in the con
•ition of John. Yet on entering the
house a few minutes later, Wilbur
threw up his hands and ejaculated,
'John is dead!" And so it developed.
John had died at the hospital at the
exact moment when the thought came
to Wilbur.
In 1873 John and Wilbur were mar
ried to Alice and Carrie Worth, in Clay
County, Mo., and these brides were
twins. Furthermore, an elder brother
of the Stites twins married an elder
sister of the Worth twins, and the two
famlles were thus connected in a man
ner seldom found.
Both John and Wilbur were well
known and respected citizens of Wich
ita, and for years it has been noticed
by their friends that they thought alike
on every subject. Often, as a test, they
were questioned separately, and each
gave the same reply, differing, perhaps,
only a little in their forms of expres
sion. Their business partner, J. S.
!Alexander, has been with them thirty
years. He knew them apart, but he
could not tell how he knew. "I have,"
be said, "made the most minute exam
ination of their faces and forms, of
their eyes and expressions, of their
voices and their laughter, of their hab
Its and manners, and for the life of me
I can't tell why I knew them separate
ly. We who have known them for a
quarter of a century have noticed that
they cut their tobacco in exactly the
same form, that they walked exactly
alike, and that they thought precisely
alike."
Once, when John broke a limb, Wil
bur immediately suffered corresponding
pains in the same limb. They had
never been known to disagree on any {
.matter. They lived together in the
aame house for thirty years.-Wichita
Eagle.
TnHE TOSTIGLI MONUMENT.
Many queer memorials of the dead
have been erected by pious relatives
in accordance with their own peculiar
fancles or those of the defunct. Sel
dom, however, does one see a monu
rent in which singularity of taste and
THE MONTI MONVUMENT.
artistic excellence are combined as
they are in these two examples from
Milan, Italy.
The monument of Leonilda Monti
presents a lifelike statue of her faith
ful hound gr.zing at her sculptured fea
tures and bewailing his loss, and on
and about the low, flat tomb of Er
mengidio Tostigli five nude children
are playing and tumbling like kittens.
These singular monuments are given
in Reclam's Universum.
" NErXT WAS ALIVE.
At Wellsville, Ohio, the family of
Samuel Coll~dge,. a painter, living on
Commerce street, believing him dead,
began making preparations for the
funeral. John Bissnman, a barber, was
sent for to shave the dead man. Biss
man was showan into a room where
he found the body of a man lying upon
a bed. When the sheet was removed
Bissman recognized the fetures of Col
ledge.
lissman made the lather and applied
It to the face of the silent man. As
soon as Bissman's wet fingers touched
the face of Colledge he discovered that
the face was warm. Bissman scruti
mized the face closely and placed his
hand over the man's heart. The heart
of Samuel Colledge was beating, not
ery rapidly, but with enough force to
show that life had not gone.
Bissman notified the people in the
house that Colledge was alive, and the
ireparations for the funeral were aban.
doned. Shortly afterward Colledge re
covered consciousness. He had been
_erlously ill for several days.
THE NUBEBET SHOE.
·It Is proposed to erect a gigantic shoe
bn the World's Faiir Grounds as an at
tractive feature for the children, and at
the same time to put it to the practical
tse of a nur.tery and playground. It is
p~lanned to build it to correspond with
the ideas conveyed in the rhymes of
our childhood, and to maintain dif
ferent compartments especially fitted
up for th? comfort and amusement of
the little ones. Uniformed and trained
nurses will oe in attendance to care
for them while their parents are view
ing other attractions.
A movable sidowalk is suggested to
kdd to tin novelty of the structure.
SThe shoeo wuhld have the appearance
of h3avin~ been worn by a great giant
and vali;·s patches and holes will be
gsed as entrances, exits and windows.
S Through one of these openings a great
papier mache figure of the old woman
who lived in the shoe will peer out,
and at other holes the live children
a, would of course appear, thus giving a
a. realistic effect to the scene.
to The principal entrance will be to an
?r elevator, which will take visitors to
it the different apartments. A large ob
is servation platform will be arranged
it where a band of string music will play
r- all the popular nursery airs of child
a- hood's happy anys.
le Many splendid electric light effects
ar will be introduced, if the shoe is built,
d, to make it particularly picturesque at
d. right.
ie Refreshments especially adapted to
te the health and comfort of the children
will be served, and everything to amuse
r- the little tots will be found in the "Old
y Woman's Shoe" at he World's Fair in
*e St. Louis, 1904.-Boston Post.
Ar MA x On LABYRINTH.
o This maze is a correct ground plan
i- of one in the ga 'lens of the Palace of
Hampton Court. No legendry tale is
11 attached to it of which we are aware,
i- but its labyrinthine walks occasion
d
PUZZLE MAZE.
much amusement for the numerous
,f holiday parties who frequent the pal
.r ace grounds. The partitions between
t the walks are of clipped hornbeam,
e and are about five feet in height. The
puzzle is to get to the centre, where
a seats are placed under two lofty trees,
t and many are the disappointments ex
e perienced before the end is attained;
y and even then the trouble is not over, it
y being quite as difficult to get out as
to get in.
g A CURIOUS PROPHECT.
d In the year 1913, 11 years hence, the
y German Empire is to go to pieces, ac
e cording to a Polish prophet. Ils rea
a sons for the prophecy are so cogent
that there is no room for doubt, says
the London Express.
Take, he says, the year 1849, the
d date when the "Constitution of the
a German Empire" was first framed, and
r add the figures. The result is 22. If
I. this is added to 1849 we get 1871-the
I. year when the German Empire was
d founded.
Now add together the figures of that
year. Result, 17. Tack this on to
1871, and 1888 comes out-the year
when Germany lost her first two Em
perors-the Emperors William and
Frederick.
Repeat the addition process. 1-I-8-t-8-1-8
equals 25; 1888-1-25 equals 1913.
What does this signify? To most
people nothing more than 1913. But
the Polish prophet has an answer pat
-1913 is the date of Germany's de
struction. Could anything be clearer?
A oREWSOME CUBE.
Diseases have been treated in many
odd ways in the hope of cure, says the
London Chronicle. One of the oddest
and most grewsome is alluded to by
the Vicar of Filey in his account of his
walk to Rome. On the way he came
across a German, who mentioned,
rather mysteriously, the Hanoverlan
method of execution by decapitation.
s Being further questioned, he said that
n at one of these executions he was in
charge of an epileptic girl, who was
ti brought there to drink the warm blood
' of the executed criminal, as it was
1 considered an infallible cure for fits.
n This took place in 1857, and the man
- had in his possession an illustrated
n paper of thott time which pictured the
incident.
CUT IN TWO TO SAVE LIFE.
Toronto surgeons are proud of an
unparalleled feat performed at the
'f Toronto Hospital. The patient, a la
n borer, was suffering from spreading
1 gangrene, which affected both legs and
e must infallibly have proved fatal in
sa short time. The only hope was to
Scut off both legs. It was not a mere
e case of amputation. -The whole of the
n thighs had to be removed, the hip bones
d being separated at the upper joints and
- the nerve branches destroyed. The
man was, in fact, cut in halves. The
d operation was a brilliant success.
d AUTOMATIC EMORTY.
It One may have an excellent memory,
- and yet during the busy seasons find it
s impossible to remember all the busi
t ness details which require daily at
t tention. For this reason a new device
o is a step in the right direction.
It consist of a smooth surface, on
e which are a number of perforations.
e Close to each of the latter is a mnem
* onic word, or symbol, and connected
Swith them are pegs, or markers, which
n can be detached, if necessary. In this
way those words or symbols which one
desires to remember during any day
can be left unobstructed and others
'e can be covered by the pegs.
t A device of this kind occupies little
it room, and, whether it it kept in the
11 pocket or on a desk, will frequently
Is be found of much use.
f streets For the Sun.
f- Many new cities in the West are laid
d out with a view to h:ying the sun to
if shine from side to side in every street
d at some time of the day. The avenues
e run northeast to southwest and the
7- streets northwest to southeast. In
winter in some of our New York streets
:o running east and west the sun never
shines on the pavement.-New York
e Press.
e Talk is cheap, and yet some people
s. make very extravagant assertions.
9UNH ATTENI II A FODUINI A±A
AnA WITI TIE TiRRIB6E RUSIAR KNOUT
TieVyictimn! stu.ppuor w pld IJ..a .ra L Buh- 3
Ike [Runt i. * Ihizrt-fualsEd. Lung! 5.II..k Whip-Au
Ijxuratun ti Dlptio fr Iunrp-Foltnzace i tie flesh.
- 0
SHE late Dr. Benjamin How
ard, an Englishman by birth,
an American by adoption, a
veteran of the Civil War, and
a physician of international standing,
says, in his writings that in 1859 he be
came interested in the different convict
systems of the world, the study of
criminology and prison reform. And
so, beginning with 1888, he began to
travel considerably for the purpose of
making thorough investigations of
these subjects. He went through the
principal prisons of England, Germany
and the United States, and through
every convict prison between St. Pe
tersburg and Siberia; at Vladivostock
he met the governor of the mysterious
island of Sakhalin-still regarded as in
evitably the grave of every Russian
murderer sent there-who invited him
to make a visit to his prison home. Dr.
Howard joyfully grasped this opportu
nity, and during his residence in the
penal settlement accompanied the gov
ernor on all his tours of inspection, be
came familiar with the innermost
working of every department, and at
each of the floggings which occurred
the culprits were examined by him per
sonally before, during and after the ex
ecution of the sentence. Inasmuch as
Dr. Howard enjoys the distinction of
being the only foreigner who has ever
remained overnight on the island, his
account of the life of the convicts and
his unique experiences, embodied in
his posthumous work, "Prisoners of
Russia," will be read with unusual In
terest.
It was by the merest accident that
Dr. Howard was permitted to see a
prisoner punished with the terrible
knout. One day in the Korsakoffsk
settlement the report of a drowning ac
cident made him hurry off to the beach,
where he found the newly appointed
medical inspector, Dr. A-, endear
oring to resuscitate the patient. Asked
where he had learned the method of ar
tificial respiration he was employing he
answered that it was the American
method, known as the "direct method,"
of Professor Howard, and that he had
learned it in St. Petersburg. Dr. How
ard says:
"He was immensely astonished at
finding that the person who was show.
ing his pleasure in the returning life
of the patient was himself the author
of the method, and from ~that day on
ward, both in the hospital and out of it
Dr. A- treated me with as much
consideration and respect as if I were
the senior physician of the post, and
he merely an assistant."
It was, therefore, only natural that
the Russian should ask the American
to help him in making a report upon
the condition of a prisoner condemned
to receive the maximum legal sentence
of 100 lashes. Dr. A- said to the
writer:
"He is a weakly sort of creature, and
I feel very anxious about taking the
responsibility of it. At the same time,
as you know, I am a new man here,
and it might be unpleasant for me to
venture to obstruct the execution of a
sentence passed by the court, except
for reasons wh!ch would be manifestly
unquestionable. The fact is, I was
just thinking if I couldn't manage to
get you to lelp me through the matter.
You see, as you have been a university
professor, and are a guest of the gov
ernor, a professional concurrence on
your part would fortify my position,
whatever it might be, and make it im
pregnable."
The governor, thpugh obviously an
noyed, made no open protest. Both
surgeons agreed that the man would
survive the flogging. The sentence
was executed in the quadrangle of the
prison. The prisoner was strapped
face downward upon a large low, rath
er narrow and very solid looking bench
or table about fourteen inches high,
having in its top pairs of slit-shaped
perforations. This was the kabyla, or
flogging table. Dr. Howard writes:
"From the same kamera from which
the culprit had come, a tall. stalwart
mnan stepped forth. His face was stern
but without malice. He had in his
hand what appeared at first sight to be
a short-handled, long bullock whip. As
he came forward he drew the multiple
thongs through his fingers in an expert
fashion, as if to straighten them,
stalked three or four paces in a
straight line from the kabyla on its
right, and marked the distance with
his heel. This man was the execu
tioner. With military precision he
planted his right foot firmly on the
marked spot, and, raising his hand as
high as he was able, with a clever
wrist movement he sent the thongs
.swishlng backward and forward, the
hiss ending with a ping like that of a
minnie bullet. Slightly changing the
position of his foot he repeated this
proceeding two or three times. He
was simply measuring his stroke. Fix
ing himself with extra firmness in his
latest position the executioner skill
-ully kept the lash poised in the air, as
an eagle poises when about to dart
upon its prey. Fully assured now of
his accuracy he shot a swift and impa
tient glance at the governor, who, ac
customed to the signal, sternly gave
the final word of command. At least.
he commenced to give it, but before the
word was fully out of his mouth it was
completely drowned by the shrieks and
yells of the culprit. I could only just
catch the voice of the executioner as
as he shouted loudly and deliberately,
"N-u-m-ber one!" answered by that of
the marker as he repeated and record
ed it. I quickly began to appreciate
what had appeared to me mere ostenta
tiousness in the preliminary stroke
practice. For, having once been start
ed the executioner's strokes were as
steady, as rhythmical, as precise, as if
done by a steam engine, and as unre
lenting. Such was the precision of
them that at'the end of the fifth there
were exactly fifteen lines, scoring the
buttocks as evenly as if they had been
marked by a piece of chalk. Their
force so completely expelled the blood
from the surface that with chalk the
lines could not have been made whiter.
By the wrist manoeuvre the blows
were applied with such carefully grad
ed force that at the end of the first
stage the part already attacked looked
as if covered with an even sheet of
white paper. There was not a drop of
blood."
Up to this point, or about the twenty
fifth stroke, so violent were the at
tempts of the prisoner to struggle and
to yell, that death from suffocation
seemed as likely as from the flogging
itself. Then came a dead silence.
"The second stage commenced when
the blood began to flow, and as this
proceeded more and more frely, the
victim appeared to revive and come to
life again. As a spectacle, this was by
far the most horrible part of the pun
ishment, though for the victim it was
much less painful. At etery blow each
of the three knout-ended thongs, like
the claws and beak of a vulture, pecked
out fragments of dripping flesh, which
were scattered in all directions by the
backward swing of the lash. To avoid
them the officers--who were in white
uniform-and the doctors had.to step
back and back for a considerable dis
tance. After the skin of the side at
tacked had been completely detached
and scattered, the screams of the poor
wretch subsided into groans and sobs.
The excavation, now about the size
and depth of a soup plate, being filled
with overflowing blood, which poured
over the edge of the table, the foice of
the blows was very much deadened.
The deeper and deeper the plowing, the
less and less was the pain. At last.
when it seemed as if the time would
surely never arrive, the t:arker, all out
of breath, shouted out, in a loud and
prolonged voice. "F-i-f-t-y!" and the
governor cried, 'Halt! "
At this point Dr. A- stepped for
ward, felt the prisoner's pulse, stepped
back to the governor and made a re
port of the man's condition. After a
pause of about five minutes the execu
tioner and marker changed sides, like
cricketers:
"Again the executioner went through
the same process as at the first start
ing. Again the final command was
given, and with the same shrieks and
yells on the part of the culprit and the
same mechanical rhythm, persistence
and relentlessness on the part of the
executioner, the scene continued until,
to the infinite relief of everybody, the
marker shouted out the welcome word
'N-i-n-e-t-y - n-i-n-e!' The hundredth
stroke is always omitted as a token of
imperial magnanimity. When what re
mained of this poor wretch had been
unstrapped lie was not dead, and his
quivering body was borne away to the
hospital."
The flogging table was swilled with
buckets of water, and during the dry
ing of it Dr. Howard examined and
experimented with the bloody knout.
He says:
"The handle of this instrument was
of thick wood, about eighteen fiches
long. The main thong was of stout
rawhide, tied into a knot about eight
feet from the handle, where it was
split into three smaller thongs. These
were about three feet long, the ends
terminating, not in lead or iron hooks,
as I have seen falsely alleged, but in
kilots so short and hard as to amount
to almost the same thing. At the time
I examined it the thongs were nearly
covered with blood clots and clinging
fragments of flesh. It was a most sick
ening object."
Later, Dr. Howard accompanied Dr.
A- to the hospital, and found the
flogged assassin in one of the best beds
in the best ward, where everything had
been carefully prepared for his recep
tion. The writer adds:
"In the dressing of his wounds, the
selection of his diet, as well as in the
hospital attention of the nurses, there
was neither stint nor limitation so far
as the resources of the hospital depart
ment permitted. In the nature of his
case his treatment called for very little
medicince, but rather for moderate
stimulation and all the nourishment he
could take, and as he suffered very lit
tie actual pain, his condition and pros
pects were regarded by some of the
other patients as being rather enviable
than otherwise. To an ordinary ob
server, and, indeed, to anybody, his
wound was certainly sufficiently shock
aIng. for the entire surface fell into a
shade of gangrene, and sloughed away
in pultaceous masses, leaving an exca
Vation which, for size and depth, I
never saw equalled except in a few
cases of shell wounds on the field of
battle. As the process of repair was
necessarily a long one, the treatment,
which had to be most generous, gave
him a long period of such luxury as
mivht by macy of his class be regard
ed as a ~otod offset. if not sufficient
compensation for his punishment"
Yields Love and Life
Riccnt Suicide Makes ublic an~'Eitra odnary Cae
of Sef-Sacrifice,
I dear wife, my love, I love
you. I will- leave you at 1
o'clock. May God bless you.
For you I will leave $10,000.
My love was greater than word can
tel BILL."
These words, sprawled with trem
bling hand on a sheet of common note
paper, were addressed to Mrs. Charles
Stierle, Newlon, Mont., by the man
who first married her, William W.
Hately.
Then, on the lawn in front of his
boarding-house at Omaha, and with
his former's wife name upon his lips,
Hately killed himself by shooting.
Hately went to Omaha many years
ago, as the residents of that new city
William Hately.
use the term "many." Fifteen years
ago he entered a clothing company's
employment and soon became one of
its most trusted employes. Three
years latex Mattle May Lowe, the
daughter of a family well known and
in comfortable circumstances, be
came his wife. Two children were
born as a result of the marriage
Jean, now eleven, and Robert, now
nine years of age.
The Hately home, though not large,
was happy and filled with ordinary
comforts. Hately came from a good
family, one that knows how to live
well. His mother, Mrs. Thomas Hate
ly of No. 4 Cross Row, Gateshead,
England, is reputed to be wealthy, but
Hately's nature was one of independ
ence, and although frequently strug
gling against a semi-poverty, he al
ways refrained from applying for as
sistance from his mother or from his
brother-in-law, B. F. Deright, a prom
inent safe dealer in Omaha.
His wife was always affectionate
and seemingly content in her posi
tion, although her friends say she
sometimes sighed for more .of the
world's comforts than Hately was cap
able of giving her.
Hately a little over a year ago
moved to Newlon, Mont., taking his
wife and two children with him. Pov
erty, gaunt and real, there overtook
him. He was no longer able to pro
vide his wife with the comforts to
which she had been accustomed, and
he noticed that her affection for him
was rapidly departing. It was a still
greater grief for him when he dis
covered that her love had not only
been lost to him, but that her heart
had been won by another, Charles
Stierle, wealthy, manly and withal
honorable. Not a taint of suspicion
was directed against the wife. Al
though loving Charles Stierle and with
the former love for her husband dead
within her, she still followed the duty
of a wife and uncomplainingly clung
to him. But Hately saw.
It was agreed that a divorce should
be obtained by Mrs. Hately with Hate
ly's consent, so that she could wed her
new love. The divorce was granted
and Hately never uttered a murmur.
Hately returned to Omaha imme
Mrs. Hately.
diately after the divorce was granted.
He procured a positicn with Thomas
Kilpatrick & Co., and for the past year
had shown no failure in his duties
and no redluction in his commercial
abilities because of his troubles.
New Mining System.
A gold-bearing clay found in Santa
Cruz county, Arizona, is of such a
refractory nature that the usual meth-'
ods of separation have failed abso
lately to extract the gold therefrom.
After practically every known meth
od had been tried and failed, the in
genious scheme of drying the gouge
thoroughly and beating it vigorously
with a club was adopted, with com
plete succesS. This is a mining sys
tem unknown in any other part of the
world.
Enforcing Obnoxious Laws.
The city marshal of Mexico, Mo., is
causing a good deal of disturbance in
that city. He insists on enforcing the
ordinance which provides that all
placesof business shall be closed ae
Sunday. This absurd proceeding has
se"antaged the feelings of the aide'
men that five of them have resigned,
another threatens to follow suit, and
even Mayor Jones intimates his inten
tion to do likewise. Thus the odd sit
nation is presented of the lawmakers
refusing to assume responsibility for
the government of a place where the
law is enforced. The marshal says he
believes in Gen. Grant's declaration
that the way to repeal an objection
able law is to enforce it.
Plan to Honor Gen. 81igel.
Admirers of the late Gen. Frans Si
gel propose to ask the New York city
authorities to change the name of
Cedar Park, at One Hundred and Fif
ty-second street and" Mott avenue, to
Sigel park, to honor the memory of
the patriot and soldier. Gen. Sigel
was a resident of the Bronx for more
than a quarter of a century, and his
friends say that as he was the most
prominent veteran of the civil war
who lived in that part of the city it
would be appropriate to commemorate
his patriotic services in such a sub
stantial way. Many public officials
and citizens of the Bronx favor the
plan.
Father and Son in Ong Pulpit.
Recently father and son appeared
in the same Brooklyn pulpit-that of
the Greenwood Baptist church. Rev.
Dr. Robert Bruce Hull is pastor there,
and his son, Rev. Robert Cbhpman
Hull, was well received. The latter
is just turned 21 years of age, and
during the summer has been preach.
ing in the Strong Place Baptist
church, Brooklyn. The father
preached Sunday morning and the
son in the evening.
The Law of Compensation.
In days gone by when. Ms Tswain
I used to court the girls,
I'd often note the monstrous hats
Above their fluffy curls.
And then I found the reason for
Their bats' most wondrous growth,
For underneath them-from the sun
Was shelter for us both.
Alas! those days are past and gone,
Their hats are now quite small;
I find now when the sun is hot,
No room beneath at all.
But compensation's everything,
'Tis nature's rigid law;
The girls now Join me underneath
My spreading Panama.
Farmers Keen in, Business.
Johnstone Bartlett, a lightning-rod
agent, called on the prosecuting at
torney to-day and asked that warrants
be issued for the arrest of twelve
Atchison county farmers, says I to
Nebraska State Journal. He says h
started out of Atchison a woee :{ n
with a team of good horses ar.l a
new spring wagon, but that dlr.,
the week he was swindled out of a
erything, in trading horsesc, an:cd v.;
compelled to walk back to town. :.
did no business, and lost ll : l
lightning rods. The pros~:.h. ,:
torney said that getting the b=a:: 2 o"
horse trade was no violation of law,
and Bartlett left for the east, saying
bank presidents were easier than
farmers.
Stood Dead in Doorway.
A Boston man who has just returned
from ruiled StL Pierre says that a
friend of his who entered the city as
soon after the eruption as the fire and
heat allowed, spoke one evening af
entering a house in St. Pierre iv an
endeavor to find the family's bodies.
There stood in the doorway a strange
man to whom he touched his hat as
he went in. He found the family all
dead within, and, sickened by the
sight, made haste to come out again.
In the doorway he again encountered
the stranger, and, thinking he might
mean some mischief, this time ob
served him more closely. He was
looking into the eyes of a man two
days dead.-Boston Transcript.
New. idea in Dirigible Balloons.
Flying machines steering by Hertz
fan waves was Patrick Alexander's
striking position at the late Berlin
scientific' ballooning conference. He
claims that an unmanned balloon,
carrying instruments for registering
temperature and moisture at diffiter
ent heights, can be sent fifty miles
and steered back to the starting
point